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Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

— Wei Wu Wei Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen — Advaita — Tantra (1960)

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There seems never to have been a time at which sentient beings have not escaped from the dungeon of individuality.

All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)

It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.

The Tenth Man : The Great Joke (1966)

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow — and that is likely to hurt.

Posthumous Pieces (1968)

What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way (1963)

There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.

All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)

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It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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